Hampshire College

About: Hampshire College is a education organization based out in Amherst Center, Massachusetts, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Genetic programming & Population. The organization has 461 authors who have published 998 publications receiving 40827 citations.

Toward Supporting Information Quality in Rhetorical, Dialogic, and Collective On-Line Communication

Abstract: This position paper outlines the ideas underlying a proposed long term research project. The project will develop technologies that support greater quality or "integrity" in on-line information and communication by supporting meta-dialogic and meta-cognitive information, with the goal of allowing users to better determine the degree of trust or usefulness of on-line information. In providing a framework that structurally supports more transparency, reflection, multiple-perspectives, critical thinking, authenticity, and meta-cognition, I hypothesize that communication with higher quality or integrity (as defined later) will result, at least in communities of practice that value this type of information. The need for such tools at three communication realms is discussed: rhetorical (one-way), dialogic (two-way), and collective (decision making). I give examples of what these technologies might look like, address a number of possible concerns or difficulties with project goals, and describe a research agenda.

Science or Sacrilege: Native Americans, Archaeology and the Law

Abstract: Science or Sacrilege: Native Americans, Archaeology and the Law. 1996. 60 minutes, color. video by Nicholas Nicastro. For more information contact University of California Extension Center for Media and Independent Learning, Berkeley, CA 94704 (510/624-0460).

The Haunting of Evidence

Abstract: In this essay, we situate the murder of Trayvon Martin within the history of the relationship between evidence and anti-blackness, suggesting that evidence and facts are rendered irrelevant when it...

Mass drivers. 2: Structural dynamics

Abstract: Various structural and dynamical problems related to both small-scale forces between the drive coils and within the bucket structure as well as the overall combined large-scale dynamical interaction of the bucket stream and MDRE (Mass Drive Reaction Engine) structure are examined. The large-scale dynamics appear weakly stable. Finally, MDRE operation in an inverse-square-law gravitational field is discussed and the required curved shape of the guideway is computed.